How many colleges are TOO many to apply to?

wecandothis
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:05:11 +0000

something else to consider is if you need to apply for financial aid and scholarships…if so, that adds quite a bit of work. Especially the fin aid stuff falls more to the parents, so be sure they have the time to help you with that part.
my d applied to 16, but 7 were UC’s (same app) and 4 were CSU’s (same app) and I’m glad we didn’t have more. It was on the edge of being too much, but we needed a wide net due to financial considerations.
So far her only regret was not applying to at least one super reach. She has 3 reaches, but they are more high reaches, not super reaches. She also felt she had too many safeties (3 of the CSU’s), but we didn’t know enough about them to narrow them down!
We did get some fee waivers, so that helped with app fees.